Tributes paid to Major P Purushottam, comrades

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Daily Excelsior
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Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 3: Public Relation Office of Ministry of Defence today paid floral tributes to Major P Purushottam and his comrades who attained martyrdom in a fidayeen attack thirteen years ago.
Wreaths were laid on behalf of Sitanshu Kar, Additional Director General, Media and Communication, Ministry of Defence and media fraternity at the office memorial in PRO.
Major Purushottam who was posted as Public Relations Officer (PRO), bravely fought militants who had launched a fidayeen attack on his office on November 3, 1999, Defence spokesperson Lt Col JS Brar said.
Brar added that Major Purushottam and his colleagues laid down their lives while trying to save media persons.
“He was a very brave and compassionate person, adding, that just a few months before his martyrdom, Major Purushottam had orchestrated the media coverage of the Kargil War”, Lt Col JS Brar informed.

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